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16 June 2023
Issue: 8029 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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Civil way: 16 June 2023

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The King’s Bench Way; agreement for disagreement; broadband on paper; perils of a police report.

SUPREME MIX

No surprise. The Supreme Court has granted permission to appeal in the whiplash-plus-something-else case of Hassam and another v Rabot and another [2023] EWCA Civ 19 (see ‘Civil way’, NLJ, 3 February 2023, p15). And just as the Official Injury Claim portal was celebrating its second birthday with customary soft tissue buns and heralding an intermediate release for 14 June 2023, which was calculated to ensure that the Court of Appeal’s decision was reflected in the portal journey. It is going ahead.

SHARP EXPECTS

The ninth edition of the King’s Bench Guide has been published. Don’t rush to print out unless you have 230 pages going spare. It does not have the status of a practice direction or the force of law. So, don’t waste your time on it? Depends on whether or not you fancy your complexion turning crimson and an adverse costs order when you next appear before a master. You

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NLJ this week: What counts as ‘rent’? Court says labour alone won’t do
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Three men wrongly imprisoned for a combined 77 years have been released—yet received ‘not a penny’ in compensation, exposing deep flaws in the justice system. Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Jon Robins reports on Justin Plummer, Oliver Campbell and Peter Sullivan, whose convictions collapsed amid discredited forensics, ‘oppressive’ police interviews and unreliable ‘cell confessions’
NLJ this week: Clarity on whistleblowing, settlements and tribunal limits
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